What's wrong with satisfying curiosity?
***What's wrong with satisfying curiosity?***
Ever see Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark? Know what happens when they open the Ark? =P
"The tomb should not be opened merely to satisfy curiosity, he insists. There is no doubt, he says, that St. Paul was buried on the site, "because this basilica was the object of pilgrimages by emperors; people from all around the world came to venerate him, having faith that he was present in this basilica."
What? "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain", we insist its St. Paul because simply everyone thinks it is. Twould be nice to know that there is someone buried there....we would never know for sure that it actually THE St. Paul or not.
Re: the homophobe comments...he wasn't a homophobe at all. His lists of sins included a lot of activities, 'modom was just one of several.
And it is wrong. Maybe not sinfulto those who insist "thats shoving religion down their throats" but physically and naturally wrong.
"The tomb should not be opened merely to satisfy curiosity, he insists."
Just wondering what other reason there could be ?
Well, he is the Vatican archaeologist.
If the Church tells him not to open it, he won't.
Unfortunately, the Catholic Church likes to horde its finds to itself and not let scientists examine.
Case in point: they refuse to let any excavation at all take place below the Temple Mount where the Ark of the Covenant may be buried.
The Catholics just flat refuse.
It is frustrating stuff.